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Best AI tools for image to video

26 tools in the Video category, filtered to image to video.

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Runway

Featured
Video · Gen-4
9.0

Pro-grade AI video editor and Gen-4 generation.

Paid· $15/mo Standard; $35/mo Pro; $95/mo Unlimitedshort filmVFX
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Sora

Featured
Video · Sora
8.8

OpenAI's flagship text-to-video model.

Paid· Basic: $10 · Pro: $25 · Enterprise: Contact salesrealistic motionnarrative clips
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Luma Dream Machine

Video · Dream Machine
8.4

Fast, accessible text-to-video with strong camera control.

Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: Contact salescamera motionkeyframing
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Google Veo

Video · Veo 3.1
8.2

Google DeepMind's flagship text-to-video model with native audio generation and cinematic camera control.

Paid· Metered via Gemini API; also bundled in Google AI and Workspace planstext-to-videoimage-to-video
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Higgsfield

Video · Multi-model (Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, Nano Banana Pro)
8.2

AI video and image generation suite that aggregates 30+ frontier models under one workflow.

Paid· Subscription tiers (pricing not clearly published on landing)text-to-videoimage-generation
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LTX Studio

Video · LTX-2, LTXV-13B, Veo 3, Flux.2
8.2

Storyboard-first AI video platform from Lightricks with shot-level camera and character control.

Freemium· Free: €0 · Lite: €15 · Standard: €35 · Pro: €125text-to-videostoryboarding
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Runway

Video · Gen-4.5, GWM-1, Aleph 2.0, Act-Two
8.2

Generative video and world-model platform from one of the original AI-video pioneers.

Freemium· Free credits; paid Standard/Pro/Unlimited tiers + Enterprisetext-to-videoimage-to-video
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Kling AI

Video · Kling 3.0 (Omni One)
8.1

Kuaishou's flagship AI video generator, currently topping the ELO leaderboard for text-to-video and image-to-video.

Freemium· Free 66 daily credits; Standard $6.99/mo to Ultra $180/mo; API per-secondtext-to-videoimage-to-video
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Kling

Video · Kling 1.6
8.0

Kuaishou's Sora competitor — strong on motion fidelity.

Freemium· Limited free; paid from ~$10/momotion fidelitynarrative clips
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Pika

Video · Pika 2.0
8.0

Playful, social-first AI video generator with creative effects.

Freemium· Basic: $8 · Standard: $28 · Pro: $76 · Fancy: Unknownsocial videomemes
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DomoAI

Video · Multi-model (70+ video models)
7.9

Multi-model AI video platform covering text-to-video, image-to-video, style transfer, and talking avatars.

Freemium· Basic: $6.99 · Standard: $19.59 · Pro: $48.99text-to-videoimage-to-video
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Kaiber

Video · Proprietary (undisclosed)
7.9

AI video generator built around music-reactive animation and image-to-video transforms.

Freemium· Free trial credits; paid plans typically start around $5-15/momusic-videotext-to-video
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Google Flow

Video · Veo 3.1, Gemini Omni, Nano Banana
7.8

Google's AI filmmaking studio built around Veo 3.1, Gemini, and natural-language scene editing.

Freemium· Free 50 daily credits; AI Plus $4.99/mo; Pro $19.99/mo; Ultra $99.99–$199.99/motext-to-videovideo-editing
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Hedra

Video · Character-3 (proprietary) + multi-model canvas
7.8

AI creative agent for character-driven video, image, and audio generation built around the Character-3 model.

Freemium· Basic: $15 · Creator: $30 · Professional: $75 · Teams: $75 · Enterprise: Customtalking-avatar-videocharacter-animation
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Vidu

Video · Vidu (proprietary)
7.8

Multimodal AI video generator with strong reference-image consistency for characters and props.

Freemium· Free credits on signup; Creator Plan + CPP paid tiers; unlimited off-peak generationstext-to-videoimage-to-video
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CogVideoX

Video · CogVideoX / CogVideoX1.5 (diffusion transformer)
7.3

Open-source text-to-video and image-to-video diffusion transformer from Zhipu AI, runnable on consumer GPUs.

Free· Open-source weights; commercial API via bigmodel.cntext-to-videoimage-to-video
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Deep Live Cam

Video · inswapper_128 + GFPGANv1.4
7.2

Open-source real-time face-swap and one-click video deepfake from a single source image.

Freemium· Free open-source build on GitHub; paid pre-built Windows package on deeplivecam.netface-swaplive-deepfake
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Hailuo AI

Video · MiniMax Hailuo (02 series)
7.2

MiniMax's text-and-image-to-video generator known for fluid motion and cinematic camera work.

Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: Contact salestext-to-videoimage-to-video
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Based Labs

Video · Multi-model (FLUX, Seedance, WAN, Kling, Nano Banana)
6.9

Multi-model AI playground for image, video, and voice generation with a generous free tier.

Freemium· 300 Credits: $10 · 900 Credits: $29 · 1,600 Credits: $50 · 3,300 Credits: $99 · 10,000 Credits: $299text-to-videotext-to-image
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Melies

Video · Multi-model (Flux, Kling, Runway, Luma, Hailuo, ElevenLabs, GPT, Claude)
6.9

All-in-one AI filmmaking studio that stitches image, video, voice, and music models into a single production pipeline.

Freemium· Starter: $9/month · Pro: $49/month · Max: $99/monthai-filmmakingtext-to-video
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AISaver

Video · Multi-model (Nano Banana Pro, Kling AI, Seedance 2.0)
6.8

Browser-based face swap and AI video/image generator stitched together from third-party models.

Freemium· Popular: $29 · Recommended 7,500 credits: $29 · Recommended 15,000 credits: $49 · Recommended 35,000 credits: $99 · Recommended 80,000 credits: $199face-swapimage-to-video
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Autodesk Flow Studio

Video · Wonder 3D + Neural Layer
6.8

AI-powered cloud toolset that converts live footage into fully controllable CG scenes for VFX and animation pipelines.

Freemium· Free tier; Lite from $10/mo; Standard, Pro, Enterprise tiers; credit-basedai-motion-capturevfx-character-replacement
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Seedance 2.0

Video · Seedance 2.0
6.8

ByteDance's multimodal video model with joint audio-video generation and director-level camera control.

Paid· Not disclosed on the page; API metered via ByteDance's platformtext-to-videoimage-to-video
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Wan AI

Video · Wan 2.1 / Wan 2.2
6.5

Alibaba's generative video and image playground, wrapping the open Wan model family in a consumer web app.

Freemiumtext-to-videoimage-to-video
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Hunyuan Video

Video · HunyuanVideo (in-house, ~13B-parameter diffusion transformer with causal 3D VAE and MLLM text encoder)

Tencent's open-source, 13B-parameter text-to-video foundation model.

Freemium· Open-source weights are free to download and self-host. Tencent's hosted product surface (aivideo.hunyuan.tencent.com) is free to use with account gating in mainland China; API access is offered through Tencent Cloud on pay-per-generation pricing.Text-to-video short clipsImage-to-video animation
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LTX Video

Video · LTX-Video (LTX-2), in-house DiT — 13B full, 13B distilled, 2B distilled, FP8 quantized variants

Open-source DiT video model with synchronized audio, 4K output, and multi-keyframe control

Freemium· Model weights free under OpenRail-M (self-host). Hosted access via LTX Studio (free tier + paid plans), Fal.ai and Replicate pay-per-generation (typically fractions of a cent per second of video). Enterprise licensing available from Lightricks.Text-to-video generationImage-to-video animation